I'm pretty sure that it's been many times speculated about whether G-Man is Gordon Freeman himself in some way or not.
I just wanted to share my freshly edited original HL2 cover that features Gordon Freeman (below).
No he's not having some dermatological disease, it's just my intention to remove the glasses and the facial hair off Freeman's face, combined with my humble photoshop skills.
I used clone stamp tool which basically "clones" a certain texture of your choice onto the part you choose. So I used clean-skin parts of the same pic to cover the glasses and the facial hair.
I wonder what this striking resemblance starting with the names in the first place will reveal eventually:
Just a mere run of mind about what could have happened:
Dr. Breen is proven to be a pragmatist rather than an idealist (which he admits himself in HL2 as well). [Start of Presumed Timeline] As the Administrator back in Black Mesa times, assuming the Black Mesa incident NEVER happened and that the Combine's arrival and oppression would be happening under any circumstances, Dr. Breen wouldn't be the hero of the rebellion for sure. Knowing that Dr. Freeman's motive under being the protagonist of the series is the incident itself and the consequential struggle of survival, we can say Freeman's fight was not intentional at all. He merely was a young and bright scientist.
Let such timeline continue further for, say, another 20-30 years, so that Mr. Freeman alive-yet-"non-hero" would age enough to resemble who we know as G-Man. Let's further presume that he'd still want to do something however Combine's absolute dominance and the highly likely probability that "harvest" of humankind was about to make them go almost extinct. So wouldn't you think that it was too late for anything? [End of Presumed Timeline]
It's clear that, whatever he is granted -or contextually "whenever" he is from, G-Man has access to control time to a certain extent. [Here starts Actual Timeline]
Carrying a desperate feeling to "undo" events which would need a hero, who would you choose? Gordon Freeman, being a knowledgable scientist, apparently chose himself, carrying such motive already bearing the desperation and guilt caused by watching everything flow, rather than making a direct impact thereto, and then travelled back to the time when "Resonance Cascade" happened and handed the crystal to "younger himself" which ripped the dimension door open, igniting the absolute necessity of the struggle to survive, while informing everyone about who and what are to come in the near future as well.
Young Gordon Freeman's determined struggle to stay alive meant so much not for only himself also for humans as well. (Youtube for Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot now for a pause ^^)
Having to suffer so much to stay alive, witnessing the very close deep**** coming along, Gordon Freeman turned into a hero, a symbol of rebellion, rather than an "aged Freeman carrying a suitcase here and there who 'was' late for anything")
Moreover, G-Man traps his younger self for a destiny young-G is not at liberty to choose. Because should "younger Freeman" get sick of it, sit back and watch or anything else, G-Man's efforts would be in vain. He (G-Man) already experienced that he could sit back & watch things to come.
Remember that the first plot (HL) is to ignite the rebellion, to start things over, break into another timeline, briefly. The second involvement of Dr. Freeman is "dictated" when things are gone more complicated to such an extent that threats mankind's presence, where his right to breed is "shielded". And this assures the "the intended alternate timeline" (parallel universe, as the more popular saying goes) to take place indeed. Gordon has to be the leader and it is granted for sure.
Final thoughts: G-Man is Gordon Freeman from the future and I tried to settle such speculation on rails of reasoning as much as I could.
I really didn't predict this post to be this long. Sorry for boring the hell out of you for the same stuff once more.
I just wanted to share my freshly edited original HL2 cover that features Gordon Freeman (below).
No he's not having some dermatological disease, it's just my intention to remove the glasses and the facial hair off Freeman's face, combined with my humble photoshop skills.
I used clone stamp tool which basically "clones" a certain texture of your choice onto the part you choose. So I used clean-skin parts of the same pic to cover the glasses and the facial hair.
I wonder what this striking resemblance starting with the names in the first place will reveal eventually:
Just a mere run of mind about what could have happened:
Dr. Breen is proven to be a pragmatist rather than an idealist (which he admits himself in HL2 as well). [Start of Presumed Timeline] As the Administrator back in Black Mesa times, assuming the Black Mesa incident NEVER happened and that the Combine's arrival and oppression would be happening under any circumstances, Dr. Breen wouldn't be the hero of the rebellion for sure. Knowing that Dr. Freeman's motive under being the protagonist of the series is the incident itself and the consequential struggle of survival, we can say Freeman's fight was not intentional at all. He merely was a young and bright scientist.
Let such timeline continue further for, say, another 20-30 years, so that Mr. Freeman alive-yet-"non-hero" would age enough to resemble who we know as G-Man. Let's further presume that he'd still want to do something however Combine's absolute dominance and the highly likely probability that "harvest" of humankind was about to make them go almost extinct. So wouldn't you think that it was too late for anything? [End of Presumed Timeline]
It's clear that, whatever he is granted -or contextually "whenever" he is from, G-Man has access to control time to a certain extent. [Here starts Actual Timeline]
Carrying a desperate feeling to "undo" events which would need a hero, who would you choose? Gordon Freeman, being a knowledgable scientist, apparently chose himself, carrying such motive already bearing the desperation and guilt caused by watching everything flow, rather than making a direct impact thereto, and then travelled back to the time when "Resonance Cascade" happened and handed the crystal to "younger himself" which ripped the dimension door open, igniting the absolute necessity of the struggle to survive, while informing everyone about who and what are to come in the near future as well.
Young Gordon Freeman's determined struggle to stay alive meant so much not for only himself also for humans as well. (Youtube for Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot now for a pause ^^)
Having to suffer so much to stay alive, witnessing the very close deep**** coming along, Gordon Freeman turned into a hero, a symbol of rebellion, rather than an "aged Freeman carrying a suitcase here and there who 'was' late for anything")
Moreover, G-Man traps his younger self for a destiny young-G is not at liberty to choose. Because should "younger Freeman" get sick of it, sit back and watch or anything else, G-Man's efforts would be in vain. He (G-Man) already experienced that he could sit back & watch things to come.
Remember that the first plot (HL) is to ignite the rebellion, to start things over, break into another timeline, briefly. The second involvement of Dr. Freeman is "dictated" when things are gone more complicated to such an extent that threats mankind's presence, where his right to breed is "shielded". And this assures the "the intended alternate timeline" (parallel universe, as the more popular saying goes) to take place indeed. Gordon has to be the leader and it is granted for sure.
Final thoughts: G-Man is Gordon Freeman from the future and I tried to settle such speculation on rails of reasoning as much as I could.
I really didn't predict this post to be this long. Sorry for boring the hell out of you for the same stuff once more.
